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Featured Article: Chautauqua
Chautauqua, shuh TAW kwuh, is a system of summer school and correspondence school education founded at Chautauqua Lake, New York, in 1874. See more »
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Alternative school
Alternative school is any public or private school that differs from traditional schools in curriculum, purpose, or teaching methods.
See more »British Academy
British Academy is an institution in the United Kingdom that encourages scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.
See more »Charter school
Charter school is a public school that operates under a special contract giving it freedom from many of the rules that apply to traditional public schools.
See more »Chautauqua
Chautauqua, shuh TAW kwuh, is a system of summer school and correspondence school education founded at Chautauqua Lake, New York, in 1874.
See more »Christian Brothers
Christian Brothers is a charitable educational organization founded in Ireland in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice.
See more »Commonwealth Institute
Commonwealth Institute is an agency, based in London, that promotes learning about the Commonwealth of Nations and its members.
See more »Community college
Community college is an institution that offers additional training beyond high school.
See more »Consolidated school
Consolidated school is the result of joining two or more school districts and combining their school populations.
See more »Day care
Day care is a service in which children or dependent adults are cared for while the person who normally cares for them cannot do so.
See more »Elementary school
Elementary school is a school for children from age 5 or 6 to age 12 or 14.
See more »Girls and Boys Town
Girls and Boys Town is a private institution for homeless, abused, neglected, and disabled children of every race and religion.
See more »High school
High school is a school that provides several years of education for young people beyond the elementary level.
See more »Junior high school
Junior high school is a school designed mainly for students in the seventh, eighth, and ninth grades.
See more »Laboratory school
Laboratory school is a school used for the observation and study of children, and for the evaluation of teaching methods.
See more »Land-grant university
Land-grant university is a school endowed under the Morrill, or Land-Grant, Act of 1862.
See more »Middle school
Middle school is a school designed for students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.
See more »Military school
Military school is an institution that educates people and trains them in military arts and sciences.
See more »Nursery school
Nursery school is a type of early childhood education program designed chiefly for children 3 or 4 years old.
See more »Outward Bound
Outward Bound is an international educational organization that provides challenging wilderness experiences as courses of study.
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